A Lighter Side Of Ham Radio

Top Ten Reasons To Be A Ham Radio Operator
#10. You get to buy all that "COOL RADIO" gear.
# 9. You can buy a vanity plate for your car cheap.
# 8. You can take your "extra radio gear" to hamfests and sell it cheap.
# 7. You get to have the tallest tower(s) in the neighborhood.
# 6. You can finally own a soldering iron.
# 5. You can go to hamfests to win the door prize.
# 4. You get to send out those cool looking QSL cards.
# 3. You get to finally hang something on the wall (FCC License) at home.
# 2. You can get one of those cool hats with your callsign on it.
# 1. Your friends ask you what your callsign means.

You Might Be A Ham Radio Operator If:
# 1. You have more antennas than your local cable company does.
# 2. Birds avoid flying over your yard because of your antenna farm obstacle course.
# 3. Your HF longwire antenna is about the same length or longer than the entire
cable tv network for your town.
# 4. When your neighbors walk out and look at your antennas and just shake their heads.
# 5. Instead of watching tv on Monday nights your filling out QSL cards
for last weekends contacts.
# 6. Your "XYL" has to keep asking you to shut down your radios and come to bed.
# 7. Your "XYL" has to wake you up because your calling out
"CQ , CQ , (callsign )" in your sleep.
# 8. Your the winner for hamfests attendance in your area.
# 9. Your car looks like a rolling porcupine.
#10. Your friends stop by to visit and they have to come back to your
radio shack to see you.
#11. You have cable tv channel 18 blocked out of your tv remote program.
#12. Your bookshelf is full of Amateur Radio stores catalogs.
#13. Your backup power system is bigger and better than the local hospitals.
#14. When you key your radio up it trips the circuit breaker in your breaker box.